Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-31

The bill was then passed.
REPORT " THE WILLIS CASE.
The special committee appointed by
the Senate TO take the testimony in The
Judge Willis case, preserted the follow
! ing report this evening:
: To the Hon. T. 3. Wheeler, President of tbs
: Senate.
J Your special committee, 10 whom was
] referred the House concurrent resolution
requesting the Governor Of The State of
PeXas 10 remove Frank Willis, Judge
I OF the ThirtY-irs5 Judicial district,
! from office together with the facts and
| Charges accompanying the came, have
| had the same under consideration. Beg
! leave TO report as follows:
As basis for investigation lhey have
adopted the charges and findings Of the
/ House which accompany said resolution
/ OF address. They have taken testimony,
| Oral, written and OF record, offered both
! by the state and respondent, and this in
! yestigati3n hes been exhaustive to 81 tes-
! timOcy herein on said charges and find
jnGs, and they were confined to this
| testimony on said charges and findings
! They return herewith for consideration of
the Senate gil the testimony taken by
them, and which embraces the oral teSti-
mOny Of the witnesses, the written and
| printed documents offered in evidence, g
! synopsis made by the committee oEthe
transcripts offered in evidence by the At
| torney-General of the proceedings of the
| DOnley county District court at the Jan
uary term Of 1886, and 8 list Of the in
diCtments obtained at that term of the
court for the unlawful Enclosures of school,
| University and asylum lands, together
with said original bill of in
diCtments and said record there
of as offered in the evidence.
| Upon the consideration of said testimony
your committee instruct NE TO report
that they adopt and concur in the bill OF
charges preferred by the House against
Judge Willis. and the committee so
adopting and 5Oncurring therein hereby
prefer the same charges against the
respondent and recommend that the
same, together with the House findings
accompanying the same, be spread on the
! journal Of the Senate as and for the
charges against the respondent, and
they recommend that copy OF the
same be served upon the respondent in
stanter, and that he be notified
If the time TO Oe set for
the hearing of the same, go that ne can be
admitted to hearing in his OWn defense.
10 tuis connection the committee state
that the respondent was present during
! the whole time of the investigation, in
person, aud was represented by counsel.
Therefore, your committee recommend
that the House concurrent resolution,
which reads as follows
| Resolved by the House of Representa-
! tiyes, the Senate concurring, that the
! Governor of the state of Texas be and he
] 10 how hTT 70 +hO chi
Frank Willis, Judge of the Thirty
| first Judicial district OF the
state of Texas, from the
said Office of district Judge of said judi
cial district.
| To be cOncurred in by the Senate.
TSigned HID. MCDONALD,
Chairman of the Senate Special Com
! Further proceedings have been post
poned until Friday, the LIST day of April,
at ? O'Clock p. m, when the counsel on
each side will be allowed three and one
half hours esch to present their sides
| Of the case.
BILLS THAT HAVE BECOME LAWS.
The Governor approved the following
bills yesterday:
House joint resolution No. Is, to article
! 7, section IL, of the constitution, in re-
gard to the University lands.
| House bill No. 497, for the relief of J.
g. Early.
Substitute House bill No. 10, an act to
amend the city charter of Galveston.
| Senate bill No II, an act to provide tor
! the sale of such appropriated public lands
| situated 10 the organized counties of the
state of Texas, as contain not over GAO
acres.
Senate bill No. sos, to provide for the
election of Judge and attorney in the
Twelfth Judicial Cissrict.
Senate bill No. 259, to provide for the
election of judge and attorney in the
Ninth Judicial district.
House bill No 1923, to amend article
239, chapter 9, title 10, of the Penal Code,
IN regard to defnatiOn Of disOrderly
houses.
House bill No. 81, to establish house
of CORRECTION and reformatOry, and to
provide for maintenance OF same.
House bill Nc. !Gl, to regulate the sale
of spurious liquors and fix the rate of &C.
cupation taxes.
THE PHILANTHROPIC LOWER HOUSE.
II is generally conceded that the spirit
| that acUuated ire Lower House in making
the appr0pria ion of $50, 900 for the con-
structiOn and establishment of an asylum
for the cUlored deaf and dumb and blind
! children was commendable one. The
| friends of the bill at first feared that it
would meet strong opposition, but in
this they were agreeably disappointed
Beyond q few Intellectual attempts TO cut
| down the amount of the appropriation,
the bill had easy sailing.
| DECOYING MINORS FROM THEIR PARENTS.
| TIE bill that passed the House yester-
day defining and Furnishing the Offense of
| employing and decOyng minors from
their parents it is thought will prove a
potent remedy in some parts of the state
where it Is alleged this Practice is car
| ried on.
! THE PEC0S VALLEY IRRIGATION BILL.
! II is now conceded that the defeat of
| the Pecos val ey irrigation bill was not
so much due to any opposition 10 the
| object the bill proposes as to the want of
sufficient time 10 give it careful consid
Grafton. The measure gained friends
! from the start, and had it been introduced
a few weeks or month sooner, would,
no doubt, have passed without much OPP
position. The principal argument of the
| Senators was in effect that it might be q
good measure, but they were not familiar
enough with the subject to vote advisedly